Chuck Schumer ripped him. So did members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Hispanic Caucus, Asian Pacific American Caucus and Progressive Caucus, 17 Democratic attorneys general, and a host of other advocacy groups across the country. This week’s cavalcade of outrage directed at President Joe Biden’s handling of Haitian migrants at the U.S. southern border was as fierce as it was uncharacteristic.
“The continued use of Title 42 is a glaring failure by this administration,” said Julián Castro, former Democratic presidential candidate and housing secretary in the Obama administration. “Its continued use will not only hurt people who are seeking a better life, but risks the collapse of the Democratic coalition that elected Joe Biden.” But the spotlight on Haitian migrants in recent days — and news cycles dominated by disturbing images from the border — has opened up Biden to a heightened level of criticism from all across the party, including from organizations and leaders that traditionally don’t weigh in on migration issues. Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, summarized the position for many organizations in a statement this week: "If we were to close our eyes and this was occurring under the Trump administration, what would we do?”
The funny thing about it is that somehow the criticism in question feels more like it is being aimed at someone else. Moreover, it feels like Biden believes that by making up stories about floggings of haitians and trying to get tough on the border control that he can make it seem like this is someone else's fault.
But at the end of the day, the entire border problem is entirely on Biden and his policies. His criticism basically rolls back uphill and eventually gets to right back to him. He can decry the conditions and manner in which the Haitians are being treated. But at the end of the day all of this is his responsibility and he is curiously criticizing what he himself created.
Yet... he acts as if there is someone else to blame? Is it Trump? Is it Abbot, DeSantis? Whom exactly is he attempting to blame for his own personal incompetency and failures. Not sure he even knows, nor does the liberal press seem to know. What they do appear to be sure of is that it is someone else's fault and these problems apparently make it more necessary that Biden remain President.
To be clear here, the general public is starting to clue themselves into this line of attack. It seems that no matter what the issue, there is always someone else to blame. But if the President of the United States is actually helpless to do anything about a pandemic that has killed over 700,000 people, incapable of doing anything about a border with 12,000 refugees living in conditions not fit for farm animals, and unable to do anything about a thousand or more Americans stranded in Afghanistan, then why even have a President?
That appears to be the question more and more Americans are starting to ask. Only now it isn't just conservatives and independents who are asking the question, there are even members of the President's own Party asking the questions.
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Biden is in trouble not because of his failures in any one crisis, but because of his general incompetence.
- Matthew Continetti
https://www.commentary.org/articles/matthew-continetti/biden-incompetent-leader/?utm_campaign=biden-the-incompetent&utm_medium=social_link&utm_source=missinglettr-twitter
I wonder how long it will take for the GOP to finally dump trump and his lies he won Az???????
Pediatric covid-19 cases rose faster in counties without school mask requirements, CDC says
Gee, Rat et al will all say the above is a lie since THEY KNOW MASKS DON'T WORK!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Scott
Read this article here and again think about what you are doing.
Our constitutional crisis is already here
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/23/robert-kagan-constitutional-crisis/
It's not about Sleepy Joe Biden.
It's the most dangerous situation since the civil war began.
Roger the probability of Lil Schitty et al reading the Kagan piece is about the same as they will accept trump lost!!!!!!!!!! Sad how the GOP has become the party of embracing the lie and ignoring reality.....
Unfortunately you are probably correct about CH
This won't either change his mind about Trump
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2024-2655176293/
Hey Roger.....like trump said....if he shot a person on 5th avenue at noon time....they all would say Biden did it!!!!!!!!!
https://www.nationalmemo.com/biden-infrastructure-plan--2655174740
Throughout history, personality cults have destroyed Democratic nations because they allow freedom of speech.
We can't change that. But we have to inform enough people who were open minded enough to change their minds about Trump.
It is sad that in the US....we cannot fix what people refuse to acknowledge.....like trump losing.....moving on is not in the genetic code of trumpist slurpers who hang onto the belief that fraud cost trump the WH when in reality is he got less votes......which seems to be a problem with the GOP as they go down with their ship of fools!!!!!
Roger will be spectacularly wrong today.
Facing a heap of defeat, progressives stake hopes on spending bill
With a long list of other goals tattered by Democrats’ thin majorities, liberals are pinning their hopes on a social spending megabill.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/27/progressives-congress-spending-bill-514197
Excellent. Failure. At every turn.
Gee, I thought this thread was about Biden. This isn't about Trump. Unless you want to point out thst the very first thing Biden did as president was to rescind Trump's immigration policies. We're seeing the disastrous results.
The 2nd this Biden did was kill Union Jobs and spike energy prices.
STEALTH Taxing the poor and middle income earners earners.
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT can't debate Biden's policies.
Unless you want to point out thst the very first thing Biden did as president was to rescind Trump's immigration policies. We're seeing the disastrous results.
I'd say it's about time for another "Do Not Cum" address from the Cum-Allah.
Energy Prices are owned By Biden's Policies.
As winter approaches natural gas prices have doubled and are still climbing.
Stairmaster Joe and the REALLY Big Fucking LIE:
My Build Back Better Agenda costs zero dollars.
Instead of wasting money on tax breaks, loopholes, and tax evasion for big corporations and the wealthy, we can make a once-in-a-generation investment in working America.
And it adds zero dollars to the national debt.
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1441924106765602819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1442159969185374212%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fjacobb-38%2F2021%2F09%2F26%2Fa-46-word-compound-lie-people-are-not-buying-the-biden-administrations-costs-zero-dollars-claim%2F
Failure.
Epic FUCKING Failure.
Energy Prices are owned Biden's policies
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Only to trump asskissers like you goat fucker.....LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!! Economics 101 is driving energy costs today! And you claim to be an expert in that subject....whatta fucking joke you are......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Oh how cute. Dopey is trying to discuss economics.
Take all of the imagery you have seen of the over 14,000 Haitian migrants camped under a under the international bridge in the small Texas border town of Del Rio and add the complications of disease, public excrement, unbearable heat, and heightened frustrations. It has led to violence that has injured Border Patrol officers .
Now close your eyes and imagine that it is 100 times worse.
Because that is what it is, said Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales, the freshman Republican who represents 42% of the border. The overwhelmed city of Del Rio had been in a rapidly deteriorating crisis situation when illegal immigrants first began surging into the community in January, but Gonzales now says the situation here is a “Category 5” and that the environment is unlike anything he has ever seen before.
“I arrived here today to pure chaos,” he said. “I’ve never seen it in this environment. There literally is no border left.”
Gonzales said Del Rio is in dire straits. “There’s no doubt there’s COVID here, there’s measles, tuberculosis, all kinds of diseases,” he said. “You’ve got kids running around in nothing but diapers. A handful of port-a-potties — my God, the stench is terrible. This is not good for the migrants. It is not good for the residents. It’s not good for wherever our government is sending them in the interior of the country.”
Despite the Department of Homeland Security insisting repeatedly the Haitians would be deported, as of Tuesday, it had only removed 1,000 of the estimated 15,000 under the bridge. Multiple news organizations including CNN reported that buses have been escorting them to a nonprofit organization in town where they purchase bus or plane tickets. They are then moved to a gas station where buses pick them up and take them to other parts of the country.
The Washington Post reported that the number is in the thousands of those released to parts unknown in the interior of the country.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/life-along-the-border-collapses-as-biden-fiddles
Epic Failure At Every Turn.
Economics 101 is driving energy costs today!
If by Econ 101 you mean supply & demand, then you are correct BWAA.
All across the nation supply is being unnecessarily restricted by 'green policies' that are idiotic and laughable.
Here in NY we're sitting on what Penn State & Cornell have identified as many TRILLION cubic feet of natural gas. Natural gas that could ease the financial burden of heating costs for millions of lower middle class families, but is prohibited by wealthy elites who 'know better.' You know, elites who wear "Tax The Rich" gowns to rich peoples gala's designed by a person who's a fucking tax cheat.
This means Joe Biden is at grave risk of seeing his entire agenda go down at flames. This does not mean that he is at grave risk of realizing that what he is seeing is his entire agenda going down in flames because he is manifestly senile, but that’s another column.
Just watching Manchin and Sinema mock Schumer, who (as Hugh Hewitt noted) is desperate to ward off a primary challenge from up-talking, irony-free socialista AOC, restores one’s faith in cosmic justice. The libs are furious that Joe Manchin is ruining their party – it’s awesome. And their fussy threats are even more precious. Yeah, someone’s going to successfully primary Manchin from the left in West Virginia, right after the Boy Scouts let the Lincoln Project be honorary jamboree co-sponsors.
That Schumer and Pelosi are not feared like they should be by their own caucus is delightful. Mitch McConnell is feared by his caucus, and rightly so. And he’s playing this masterfully. Yeah, we have our own fights – including Trump’s silly campaign against McConnell, who is indisputably the most effective legislative knife fighter in generations. The guy drives me nuts too – his insurrection whining was stupid and lame – but no one wrecks the Dems’ dreams like the Murder Turtle. He just threw a Baby Ruth bar in the Capitol Hill pool by refusing to help raise the debt ceiling – the Dems have a majority, so it’s their problem. Of course, the Dems don’t want to do it because it looks bad – they want GOP cover. Mitch refuses to provide it, which is chum in the water to another Dem feeding frenzy.
It’s glorious.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/09/23/let-them-destroy-each-other-n2596278
Please rat.....tell us what green policies are restricting energy supplies......Nothing is preventing gas drilling in the Marcellus formation other than some strict regulations in the delaware watershed and NY water supply areas......
Agency permanently bans fracking near Delaware River
apnews.com/article/fracking-ban-vote-delaware...
Nearly 13,000 wells have been drilled elsewhere in the vast Marcellus formation, turning Pennsylvania into the nation’s No. 2 gas-producing state. “The fracking ban in the Delaware River Basin is a momentous victory for public health, the environment, and against climate change,” said Kimberly Ong, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Didn't @JoeBiden just say that they have matured into business partners?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1442172368588320768
https://twitter.com/ReaganBattalion/status/1442172368588320768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1442172531973115904%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdirectorblue.blogspot.com%2F2021%2F09%2Ftop-20-tweets-from-badblue-tonight_26.html
RCP headlines
Majority Now Believe That Biden Is Kind of an Idiot
Becket Adams, DC Examiner
Right before your eyes
Critics of former President Donald Trump — from liberals and progressives to centrist Democrats to right-wing Never Trump conservatives — were hoping that his influence on the Republican Party would go away after President Joe Biden was inaugurated on January 20. Instead, Trumpism and the Big Lie are as toxic as ever. Historian Timothy Snyder, during a September 26 appearance on CNN's "Reliable Sources," warned that the Big Lie — the false and debunked claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump because of widespread voter fraud — is alive and well on right-wing media outlets. And he stressed that mainstream media outlets need to be much more aggressive in calling out the GOP's war on democracy and game plan for stealing the 2024 election.
Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University, told host Brian Stelter that thanks to the persistence of Big Lie, democracy itself is on the line in the United States. The historian stressed that the Trumpian attack on U.S. democracy didn't start with the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol Building.
Speaking from New Haven, Connecticut, Snyder told Stelter, "January 6 begins in 2016. Mr. Trump says, way back then, he's not going to respect the election results. When he's running for office in 2020, he says he's not going to respect the election results. What he's trying to do — what he's, in large measures, succeeded in doing — is creating an atmosphere, precisely, where people don't take the vote itself seriously. They take what he says about it seriously."
When Stelter asked Snyder what "role" right-wing media play in this "scenario," the historian responded, "Right-wing media, with a few honorable exceptions, is one giant safe space for the Big Lie. What's happened is that rather than facts coming up from below to shape stories, we now have one enormous fiction — which is that Mr. Trump won this election. And that one enormous fiction, rather than casting light on things, just casts a huge shadow. Anything that doesn't fit that fiction can't be talked about. Anything which seems like it might somehow support that fiction gets all the airtime."
Snyder's appearance on "Reliable Sources" came only three days after the Washington Post published a sobering essay/op-ed by Never Trump conservative Robert Kagan, who warned that "the United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War." Stelter mentioned Kagan's article to Snyder, who didn't find Kagan's dire warning to be the least bit alarmist. In fact, Stelter and Snyder seemed to agree that Kagan's warning is spot on.
Stelter asked Snyder if the mainstream media need to be spending more time talking about "worst-case scenarios" in the 2022 midterms and 2024 presidential election, and the historian responded, "Those aren't worst-case scenarios. That's the mainstream…. When you have a two-party system and one of the parties is lining up against democracy, we're not talking about a worst-case scenario — we're talking about a situation where democracy is not something that can be taken for granted as a background to all the other news. Democracy itself is the foreground, and the struggle as to whether this country as to whether this country will be democratic in the future…. is the main story…. The story is whether we have a democracy or not."
Echoing the warnings in Kagan's article, Snyder added that the GOP has a game plan for stealing the 2024 election.
Snyder told Stelter, "The game is we cast doubt on 2020, we pass voter suppression laws…. If we get ahold of the House and the Senate in 2022, we plan not to certify a Democrat if he wins in 2024. We pass memory laws and voter suppression laws at the state level which give the states themselves the right to allocate electors…. We do all of that to aim for an outcome in 2024 in which the guy who loses is nevertheless the winner…. That is not a worst-case scenario. That is happening before our eyes right now."
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-s-gameplan-to-steal-future-elections-is-unfolding-right-before-our-eyes-yale-historian/
Perhaps someone can explain what Trump or Liz Cheney has to do with Biden's current legion of FAILURE.
Republicans are turning on their own dangerous President. Even Karl Rove
Allies of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) are starting to make a concerted effort to boost her reelection bid as she wages the fight of her political life against a Trump-backed challenger.
Former President George W. Bush will hold a fundraiser for Cheney next month, as reported Wednesday, handing her a boost with the traditional wing of the GOP. But backers say they expect more Republicans aligned with Cheney's brand of conservatism to get off the bench to help her in a primary knife fight against attorney and erstwhile ally Harriet Hageman.
"I'll knock on doors, I'll make calls if I have to, I'll use my social media presence, professionally and personally," said state Rep. Landon Brown (R), a Cheney ally.
"I think it's going to be much more than many people anticipate," he added. "You're gonna see a lot of the people that are out there that do support her and recognize her value ... and it's just going to be a matter of who shows up more and who can get more people to the polls."
"For Rep. Cheney to have support of true conservatives that had represented the party for decades, I think it is helpful. Rep. Cheney has been successful with fundraising in the past, and having stalwarts of the party like President Bush speak up is only going to help that," said Joe McGinley, the former chair of the Natrona County, Wyo., GOP.
The threat posed by Donald Trump is far more important than Sleepy Joe
The Dallas fundraiser Bush is hosting with GOP strategist Karl Rove next month is thus far the biggest show of support for Cheney from a slice of the party that's been increasingly sidelined as former President Trump tightens his grip on the party.
The Wyoming Republican has also gotten money and support from former Speakers Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and John Boehner (R-Ohio), as well as Country First, the outside group helmed by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), another vociferous Trump critic within the GOP.
Allies say that help, and more, could be key to keeping her seat, both in raising the millions it will take to fend off Trump's financial juggernaut and exciting her own voters.
"For Rep. Cheney to have support of true conservatives that had represented the party for decades, I think it is helpful. Rep. Cheney has been successful with fundraising in the past, and having stalwarts of the party like President Bush speak up is only going to help that," said Joe McGinley, the former chair of the Natrona County, Wyo., GOP.
"The more individuals that speak up and speak out on your behalf, it's just going to help rally the troops."
It's not TDS.
Is a genuine concern for the country.
rrb said...
Perhaps someone can explain what Trump or Liz Cheney has to do with Biden's current legion of FAILURE.
Roger Amick said...
Republicans are turning on their own dangerous President. Even Karl Rove
Well all Americans are turning on dangerous president Biden
though even President Trump eventually saw through Rove and his strong ties to Bush and the swamp
last one to figure that out will be roger
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/573882-cheney-allies-flock-to-her-defense-against-trump-challenge
I didn't agree with Bush but he is not an authoritarian leader like Trump.
Who would have been able to predict that roger would be posting positively about Bush, Cheney and Rove ?
What a neocon roger must actually be
That is if it's not TDS as he claims it isn't
ROFLMFAO !!!
He was no more authoritarian than Barack Hussein.
though even President Trump eventually saw through Rove and his strong ties to Bush and the swamp
The left adores the Bush/Cheney/Rove/Bulwark/North American Man-Boy Lincoln Association because they carry the left's water in exchange for filthy lucre.
And Biden comes out partying like it's 1939 with his vaccine demands/mandates, but it's Trump who's the authoritarian.
You can't make this shit up, folks.
All of these Trumpian authoritative demands and tendencies, without a single actual example.
I'm old enough to remember the Trump years - record low unemployment, best economy since I was in elementary school, 6% REAL wage growth, a NATO shamed into paying according to their contractual obligation, Trump actually DID drop a fucking MOAB on the Taliban vs. arming them with $85 BILLION worth of weaponry...
huh...
Still seeking those authoritative demands and tendencies.
“President Biden needs to show moral clarity in this moment,” said Julián Castro, the former Obama Cabinet member and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. “If he doesn’t, the coalition that elected him will collapse.”
There were no snakes and alligators, as Trump reportedly wanted on the U.S.-Mexico border. But the images of Border Patrol agents on horseback chasing Haitian asylum-seekers attempting to cross the Rio Grande has many of Biden’s allies comparing him to his predecessor and questioning his commitment to the larger reform project.
The administration has attempted to distance itself from actions taking place under its oversight.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called the images “horrible and horrific,” and the White House said horses will no longer be used in the area.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been tasked with dealing with some border issues, released an eyebrow-raising readout of a call she held with Mayorkas speaking to her nominal subordinate the way she might to a hostile a foreign leader.
But none of it seems to have helped much.
He's in trouble now
Bush's very libertarian views on Social Security failed.
Bush advocated putting a paltry 10% of SS tax into the stock market.
10%.
The ROI on which could've been huge for a lower middle class earner.
Democrats squealed like stuck pigs because it was a direct threat to government dependency, and if there's one thing democrats cannot abide it's freedom FROM government dependency. Complete dependence upon and fealty to government is sacrosanct and cannot bear any threat to its existence and power.
Do the math on what you've had confiscated from your wages in FICA taxes over the years. Then calculate the rate of return you would've earned against the S&P 500 index. Practically everyone who frequents this blog would be a millionaire, some several times over.
It's fucking disgusting.
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Now progressives are driving the policy agenda, and have a Democratic president they can claim as an ally. “He was not my candidate in the election,” Jayapal, who backed Sanders in the 2020 primary, said of Biden. “But what he has laid out in this Build Back Better Plan is extremely progressive, and what he has supported as we’ve gone through is extremely progressive.” Even so, Jayapal isn’t taking any chances. As chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, she has led the group in adopting a more confrontational posture toward the party leadership. Progressives in the House have threatened to vote down the Senate-approved bipartisan infrastructure bill if the broader Democratic bill does not pass first.
The most consequential move by progressives, however, might prove to be not their tactical positioning now but their success in winning—and keeping—Biden’s support for their agenda. When the president gave Jayapal a copy of his speech last week, he was demonstrating to her that he would fight for their agenda as it hangs on the edge, that their vision remains his vision. Jayapal asked him to sign it, and he did. An autographed speech is not the presidential signature that progressives ultimately want, but for the moment, it’s the best they can get.
Russell Berman is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers politics.
When they trim down the $3.5 trillion bill, even the most moderate Democrats will vote yes.
Immigration is not on the agenda.
Like guns, liberals have no fucking idea how a horse works. Therefore they must be banned from use by the border patrol.
All in pursuit of a diversionary false narrative that had to be promoted to avert our eyes from the galactic failure at the southern border.
WASHINGTON POST:
The Opinions Essay
Opinion:
Our constitutional crisis is already here
We left the Mooslimb behind.
It should make rrb happy.
When Shah began working as a translator for U.S. forces at an Afghan airbase, in 2007, his parents warned that he was putting the family at risk. “In our culture, most kids listen to what their parents say,” he told me. “And they kept telling me to quit. They’d say, ‘You can have a piece of bread to eat and live a peaceful life. You don’t need chicken and rice.’ ” It had taken Shah two years to learn to speak English well enough to land a job with the Americans. His family was large and poor, and, although he was just nineteen, they depended on his earnings. He’d previously made a modest salary working as a part-time bookkeeper. A few years after he began working as a translator, Shah got married, and, in 2012, he and his wife had their first child. The whole family moved into a two-story house in a gated community. “I was proudly working,” he said. “I had something in my mind.”
All in pursuit of a diversionary false narrative that had to be promoted to avert our eyes from the galactic failure at the southern border.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! I guess you want a Ma Duece every 100 meters to solve the crisis right rat????? The failure of mexico to keep them pesky Haitians where they belong has nothing to do what just went on....10 years after many left their country!!!!!! Why did mexico let them stay??????
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/23/robert-kagan-constitutional-crisis/
You want me to pay to read Robert Kagen behind their paywall?
What sort of idiot pays to read WaPo?
MyballsSeptember 27, 2021 at 7:54 AM
"Oh how cute. Dopey is trying to discuss economics"
Dopey is channeling his inner Alky.
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT don't know anything about the US Economy.
What sort of idiot pays to read WaPo?
The kind that is locked down in a nursing home facility with nothing else to do?
It might be available here. This is supposed to get past the paywall
https://www.washingtonpost.com/s/opinions/2021/09/23/robert-kagan-constitutional-crisis/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjQxMjM4NjcyIiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTYzMjc0MzA1OSwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTYzMzk1MjY1OSwiaWF0IjoxNjMyNzQzMDU5LCJqdGkiOiI4OGQwZDYzMS1jNTQ2LTRhN2ItOWE3MS0wMDY2MzhmYzlmZmQiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vb3BpbmlvbnMvMjAyMS8wOS8yMy9yb2JlcnQta2FnYW4tY29uc3RpdHV0aW9uYWwtY3Jpc2lzLyJ9.S_pybJyuhNlMJYa8q51ySVlPhOPIKO-fBzRTxDakbpo
Open in your browser
The Post reports the truth....a commodity you have trouble fathoming !!!!!! Your truth lies only in BULLSHIT sites like PJ Media......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/s/opinions/2021/09/23/robert-kagan-constitutional-crisis/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjQxMjM4NjcyIiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTYzMjc0MzA1OSwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTYzMzk1MjY1OSwiaWF0IjoxNjMyNzQzMDU5LCJqdGkiOiI4OGQwZDYzMS1jNTQ2LTRhN2ItOWE3MS0wMDY2MzhmYzlmZmQiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vb3BpbmlvbnMvMjAyMS8wOS8yMy9yb2JlcnQta2FnYW4tY29uc3RpdHV0aW9uYWwtY3Jpc2lzLyJ9.S_pybJyuhNlMJYa8q51ySVlPhOPIKO-fBzRTxDakbpo
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation.”
— James Madison
The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the country into warring red and blue enclaves. The warning signs may be obscured by the distractions of politics, the pandemic, the economy and global crises, and by wishful thinking and denial. But about these things there should be no doubt:
First, Donald Trump will be the Republican candidate for president in 2024. The hope and expectation that he would fade in visibility and influence have been delusional. He enjoys mammoth leads in the polls; he is building a massive campaign war chest; and at this moment the Democratic ticket looks vulnerable. Barring health problems, he is running.
Second, Trump and his Republican allies are actively preparing to ensure his victory by whatever means necessary. Trump’s charges of fraud in the 2020 election are now primarily aimed at establishing the predicate to challenge future election results that do not go his way. Some Republican candidates have already begun preparing to declare fraud in 2022, just as Larry Elder tried meekly to do in the California recall contest.
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Meanwhile, the amateurish “stop the steal” efforts of 2020 have given way to an organized nationwide campaign to ensure that Trump and his supporters will have the control over state and local election officials that they lacked in 2020. Those recalcitrant Republican state officials who effectively saved the country from calamity by refusing to falsely declare fraud or to “find” more votes for Trump are being systematically removed or hounded from office. Republican legislatures are giving themselves greater control over the election certification process. As of this spring, Republicans have proposed or passed measures in at least 16 states that would shift certain election authorities from the purview of the governor, secretary of state or other executive-branch officers to the legislature. An Arizona bill flatly states that the legislature may “revoke the secretary of state’s issuance or certification of a presidential elector’s certificate of election” by a simple majority vote. Some state legislatures seek to impose criminal penalties on local election officials alleged to have committed “technical infractions,” including obstructing the view of poll watchers.
The stage is thus being set for chaos. Imagine weeks of competing mass protests across multiple states as lawmakers from both parties claim victory and charge the other with unconstitutional efforts to take power. Partisans on both sides are likely to be better armed and more willing to inflict harm than they were in 2020. Would governors call out the National Guard? Would President Biden nationalize the Guard and place it under his control, invoke the Insurrection Act, and send troops into Pennsylvania or Texas or Wisconsin to quell violent protests? Deploying federal power in the states would be decried as tyranny. Biden would find himself where other presidents have been — where Andrew Jackson was during the nullification crisis, or where Abraham Lincoln was after the South seceded — navigating without rules or precedents, making his own judgments about what constitutional powers he does and doesn’t have.
Today’s arguments over the filibuster will seem quaint in three years if the American political system enters a crisis for which the Constitution offers no remedy.
Most Americans — and all but a handful of politicians — have refused to take this possibility seriously enough to try to prevent it. As has so often been the case in other countries where fascist leaders arise, their would-be opponents are paralyzed in confusion and amazement at this charismatic authoritarian. They have followed the standard model of appeasement, which always begins with underestimation. The political and intellectual establishments in both parties have been underestimating Trump since he emerged on the scene in 2015. They underestimated the extent of his popularity and the strength of his hold on his followers; they underestimated his ability to take control of the Republican Party; and then they underestimated how far he was willing to go to retain power. The fact that he failed to overturn the 2020 election has reassured many that the American system remains secure, though it easily could have gone the other way — if Biden had not been safely ahead in all four states where the vote was close; if Trump had been more competent and more in control of the decision-makers in his administration, Congress and the states. As it was, Trump came close to bringing off a coup earlier this year. All that prevented it was a handful of state officials with notable courage and integrity, and the reluctance of two attorneys general and a vice president to obey orders they deemed inappropriate.
These were not the checks and balances the Framers had in mind when they designed the Constitution, of course, but Trump has exposed the inadequacy of those protections. The Founders did not foresee the Trump phenomenon, in part because they did not foresee national parties. They anticipated the threat of a demagogue, but not of a national cult of personality. They assumed that the new republic’s vast expanse and the historic divisions among the 13 fiercely independent states would pose insuperable barriers to national movements based on party or personality. “Petty” demagogues might sway their own states, where they were known and had influence, but not the whole nation with its diverse populations and divergent interests.
Such checks and balances as the Framers put in place, therefore, depended on the separation of the three branches of government, each of which, they believed, would zealously guard its own power and prerogatives. The Framers did not establish safeguards against the possibility that national-party solidarity would transcend state boundaries because they did not imagine such a thing was possible. Nor did they foresee that members of Congress, and perhaps members of the judicial branch, too, would refuse to check the power of a president from their own party.
mber 27, 2021 at 7:54 AM
"Oh how cute. Dopey is trying to discuss economics"
Even more amusing frick and frack again proving they know Jack SHit.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Priceless how stupid you 2 are when blowing smoke out your asses!!!!!!!V BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!
He makes it clear that if he runs again both sides will take to the streets.
These were not the checks and balances the Framers had in mind when they designed the Constitution, of course, but Trump has exposed the inadequacy of those protections. The Founders did not foresee the Trump phenomenon, in part because they did not foresee national parties. They anticipated the threat of a demagogue, but not of a national cult of personality. They assumed that the new republic’s vast expanse and the historic divisions among the 13 fiercely independent states would pose insuperable barriers to national movements based on party or personality. “Petty” demagogues might sway their own states, where they were known and had influence, but not the whole nation with its diverse populations and divergent interests../
Roger Amick said...
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well it does sound a lot like roger
I'm guessing original content
Actually dumbshit I have my own mind
I have been saying the same things for years here
https://www.washingtonpost.com/s/opinions/2021/09/23/robert-kagan-constitutional-crisis/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjQxMjM4NjcyIiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTYzMjc0MzA1OSwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTYzMzk1MjY1OSwiaWF0IjoxNjMyNzQzMDU5LCJqdGkiOiI4OGQwZDYzMS1jNTQ2LTRhN2ItOWE3MS0wMDY2MzhmYzlmZmQiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vb3BpbmlvbnMvMjAyMS8wOS8yMy9yb2JlcnQta2FnYW4tY29uc3RpdHV0aW9uYWwtY3Jpc2lzLyJ9.S_pybJyuhNlMJYa8q51ySVlPhOPIKO-fBzRTxDakbpo
We are already in a constitutional crisis. The destruction of democracy might not come until November 2024, but critical steps in that direction are happening now. In a little more than a year, it may become impossible to pass legislation to protect the electoral process in 2024. Now it is impossible only because anti-Trump Republicans, and even some Democrats, refuse to tinker with the filibuster. It is impossible because, despite all that has happened, some people still wish to be good Republicans even as they oppose Trump. These decisions will not wear well as the nation tumbles into full-blown crisis.
It is not impossible for politicians to make such a leap. The Republican Party itself was formed in the 1850s by politicians who abandoned their previous party — former Whigs, former Democrats and former members of the Liberty and Free Soil parties. While Whig and Democratic party stalwarts such as Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas juggled and compromised, doing their best to ensure that the issue of slavery did not destroy their great parties, others decided that the parties had become an obstacle to justice and a threat to the nation’s continued viability.
Romney & Co. don’t have to abandon their party. They can fashion themselves as Constitutional Republicans who, in the present emergency, are willing to form a national unity coalition in the Senate for the sole purpose of saving the republic. Their cooperation with Democrats could be strictly limited to matters relating to the Constitution and elections. Or they might strive for a temporary governing consensus on a host of critical issues: government spending, defense, immigration and even the persistent covid-19 pandemic, effectively setting aside the usual battles to focus on the more vital and immediate need to preserve the United States.
It takes two, of course, to form a national unity coalition, and Democrats can make it harder or easier for anti-Trump Republicans to join. Some profess to see no distinction between the threat posed by Trump and the threat posed by the GOP. They prefer to use Trump as a weapon in the ongoing political battle, and not only as a way of discrediting and defeating today’s Republican Party but to paint all GOP policies for the past 30 years as nothing more than precursors to Trumpism. Although today’s Trump-controlled Republican Party does need to be fought and defeated, this kind of opportunistic partisanship and conspiracy-mongering, in addition to being bad history, is no cure for what ails the nation.
Unlike Scott I read both sides of this story. But you refuse to read it because it might actually make you change your mind Scott
You used to be Thecoldheartedtruth instead of being a cultist Scott.
I read all of the crazy conspiracies website and again you are scared.
Some of them are very intelligent people but they are cultist.
well it does sound a lot like roger
I'm guessing original content
Yep.
Completely devoid of any criticism - constructive or other wise - of Biden, and serves only to provide a diversion to this disastrous presidency. Trump's a threat, eh? If only we could return to that threat right now. Even my card-carrying liberal friends admit as much.
It's a ten minute read for me, but you should
This describes Scott and balls
The events of Jan. 6, on the other hand, proved that Trump and his most die-hard supporters are prepared to defy constitutional and democratic norms, just as revolutionary movements have in the past. While it might be shocking to learn that normal, decent Americans can support a violent assault on the Capitol, it shows that Americans as a people are not as exceptional as their founding principles and institutions. Europeans who joined fascist movements in the 1920s and 1930s were also from the middle classes. No doubt many of them were good parents and neighbors, too. People do things as part of a mass movement that they would not do as individuals, especially if they are convinced that others are out to destroy their way of life.
He is not a socialist, he is a historian.
I'm more of a historian.
I have studied the 20th century for my life,
Scott agreed with him last week!
Arizona GOP lawmaker denounces audit result as 'psychological' warfare and demands election be 'nullified'
David Edwards
September 27, 2021
Arizona state Sen. Sonny Borrelli (R) argued on Monday that the results of a so-called audit in his state prove that the 2020 presidential election should be "nullified."
During an interview on Real America's Voice, host Steve Bannon asked Borrelli to react to the results of the audit, which was conducted by a company called Cyber Ninjas.
Borrelli downplayed results that showed former President Donald Trump lost votes during the audit.
"What we're seeing right now is a psychological operation," the lawmaker said of the audit results. "What they're trying to do is a psychological operation of disinformation, misinformation."
Bannon wondered if alleged criminal activity found during the audit "rises to the level of nullifying the electors for Joe Biden."
"It's more like nullification," Borrelli agreed. "Because we have evidence of a criminal behavior here and therefore you cannot allow that to happen."
He also disagreed with reports that concluded "Biden won" because the current president gained votes during the audit.
"You know what? Yeah, OK, we verified the numbers, we verified what we have here," he said. "But we have proof fraudulent ballots were in the system because signatures were not verified, so on and so forth."
"I do believe it's important to nullify the results of the presidential election and reclaim the electors," Borrelli added.
He has the right to say that but he's a traitor.
Your liberal friends are described right now
The events of Jan. 6, on the other hand, proved that Trump and his most die-hard supporters are prepared to defy constitutional and democratic norms, just as revolutionary movements have in the past. While it might be shocking to learn that normal, decent Americans can support a violent assault on the Capitol, it shows that Americans as a people are not as exceptional as their founding principles and institutions. Europeans who joined fascist movements in the 1920s and 1930s were also from the middle classes. No doubt many of them were good parents and neighbors, too. People do things as part of a mass movement that they would not do as individuals, especially if they are convinced that others are out to destroy their way of life.
You believe that I want to destroy your way of life
I'm not that kind of person.
So Roger...
We have a constitutional crisis based on the vivid imagination of a WaPo opinion writer, huh?
So the idea that election officials have to allow poll watchers to watch and report their gross vote totals in a particular amount of time appears to be an issue of angst. If you can explain to me "why" local county election officials should be allowed to "hide" the full number of votes from the State (until they see fit to provide them) or why local county election officials should be allowed to kick poll watchers out of the room or count ballots outside of the view poll watchers.... then please do.
And at the end of the day... chaos is a matter of opinion.
Apparently everything that happened in 2020 - including poll watchers being send home, 60,000 new votes being found in two counties hours and hours after polls closed, challenges all over the country... is not "chaos" as long as the right person is ahead and the wrong people are complaining.
2020 was the most chaotic election in history. It was a complete and total clusterfuck and without any doubt the LEAST secure and the MOST fraudulent election in history. While the Media keeps demanding the opposite, the reality remains and the amount of people who "still" question the results remain higher than any other election in history.
THe real constitutional crisis "was" 2020. People like this idiot feels that attempting to "fix" those problems is akin to a new constitutional crisis. That is just idiotic.
Biden Can Regain His Popularity
September 27, 2021 at 7:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 45 Comments
Jonathan Bernstein:
“Whatever some pundits are speculating, President Joe Biden may rebound from his current slumping approval ratings. Biden is currently at around 46% approval.
The last four presidents to win re-election all hit lower marks later in their first terms:
Barack Obama was at 42% well into his second year;
George W. Bush fell to 44% halfway through his fourth year;
Bill Clinton was at 42% near the end of his second year;
and Ronald Reagan reached 35% at the beginning of his third year.
“When a president is doing badly, his weaknesses are readily apparent and ambiguous traits get interpreted as negative ones. In early 1983, pundits focused on Reagan’s factual errors and lack of command of policy details. Those flaws were no less real when things went better in the next two years. What appeared in 1984 and 1985 as resolve and toughness was, in 1982 and 1983, stubbornness and refusal to change when things were going badly.”
Biden’s Reengineering-America Moment
September 27, 2021 at 7:33 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments
“The Senate’s bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and President Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending package could live or die this week — and take Democrats’ fortunes with them. But all the minute-by-minute political drama obscures how much America could change if even a fraction of it passes,” Axios reports.
“Anything short of total failure could have a transformative impact on day-to-day life — from how we move around to our access to the internet, paid family leave and child care, health care and college.”
Excellent article!0
WASHINGTON POST Opinion Piece
We are already in a Constitutional crisis.
BUT WE ARE NOT GOING TO LET WANTTABE DICTATOR/LIAR TRUMP WIN!
THe real constitutional crisis "was" 2020. People like this idiot feels that attempting to "fix" those problems is akin to a new constitutional crisis. That is just idiotic.
It's psychological projection writ large to declare the prospect of honest and accurate election as a "constitutional crisis." It's laughable by every objective measure.
The "crisis" that the left is terrified of is the crisis of not being allowed to behave on 2022 and 2024 as they did in 2020. The prospect of the shenanigans that you describe not being allowed a repeat means that democrats are forced to compete and WIN fairly, squarely and LEGALLY.
And they see that as impossible, so it's time to trot out the "Trump is a constitutional crisis" horse shit.
2020 was the most chaotic election in history. Because of the big lie Scott.
The director of the election security department said it was the most secure election in history and the very next day, Trump fired him with a tweet
William Barr said that there was zero evidence of fraud in big enough cases to change the topic of the election.
Barr retired within a few days.
You are a cultist Scott.
People like this idiot feels that attempting to "fix" those problems is akin to a new constitutional crisis. That is just idiotic.
Amazing, isn't it? Calling for secure, honest, legal elections held with a particular focus on integrity and the sanctity of the process is a "constitutional crisis."
Only to those who would gleefully wipe their ass with the constitution.
It's a tacit admission by the left that they must cheat to win, and anything that interferes with that cheating is beyond the pale.
2020 was the most chaotic election in history. Because of the big lie Scott.
Never mind all the voting irregularities caused by vote by Mail. The Republicans were hoodwinked into going along with changing the law. Or Democrats just arbitrarily changed the rules without the legislator.
Biden Can Regain His Popularity
What makes you think Biden is going to run for re-election, if he’s even alive?
No, you’ll get Harris if you want her.
Never mind all the voting irregularities caused by Mail.
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!! And the amazing thing.....you cannot point where that has occurred let alone changed the outcome....That's why it is called a lie, cramps Nothing of the sort occurred in the real world, only in the alternate universe of old white men who are losing their grip!!!!!!!!
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